Libanus Primary School
Home Learning Policy
At Libanus Primary School we value the importance of home learning, not only in assisting and consolidating pupils learning and progress but in promoting a partnership with parents.
The purpose of home learning:
• reinforce work covered within the classroom
• revise work previously taught
• consolidate children’s learning
• help form positive attitudes to working at home including self-motivation and effort
• involve parents in the work that children are doing in school and so further encourage effective home/school links
• help parents to be aware on an ongoing basis of the standards that their child is achieving
• provide further opportunities for children to develop their literacy, numeracy and digital competence skills at home
Parents/carers can show they value their child’s home learning by:
• providing a suitable place in which their child can do their homework, preferably with an adult to discuss, encourage and support
• making it clear to their child that you value home learning and support the school in explaining how it can help learning
• encouraging their child and praising them when they have completed work set
• ensuring work is complete and uploaded to Hwb where appropriate
• checking their child spends a suitable amount of time on home learning
Additionally, parents/carers can support their child’s development by:
• visits to libraries, museums etc.
• taking a walk
• cooking with them
• enjoying stories together
• limiting screen time
• taking their child swimming
• playing games, e.g. board games, cards, ball games
• watching informative TV programmes together
• providing opportunities for craft activities, e.g. cutting, sticking, sewing, painting etc.
• gardening and growing plants
• using the internet to research something with their child (following guidelines for safe internet use)
• talking to their child about schoolwork, their day, what they have been learning about and how they have been learning
• practising telling the time, counting and using money and multiplication tables
• practise self-care skills e.g. putting on own coat, washing hands correctly, doing up shoe laces etc.
Where can Home Learning be accessed?
• Year 1 and Year 2 home learning can be access via Just2Easy on Hwb.
• Year 3 to Year 6 home learning can be accessed via Google Classroom on Hwb or on paper where appropriate
When is Home Learning available?
Year 1 – Year 6 Home Learning is scheduled on a Friday and should be submitted by the following Wednesday.
What Home Learning will be set?
• Nursery parents will be provided with guidance on how to support their child whilst in Nursery.
• In Reception, phonic sound books will be updated and sent home every Friday. These are to be returned to school every Friday.
• Year 1/2 pupils will have mathematics, literacy and digital competency home learning on a three-week rota. Spelling lists will be sent out where appropriate.
• Year 3-6 pupils will be set weekly phonics/spelling and Mathematics home learning
Reading at home
Pupils from Years 1 to Year 6 will also bring reading books home each week. We encourage all children to read to an adult each night. Parents should comment and sign their child’s yellow reading record. We also encourage parents and pupils to enjoy a story aspartof the bedtime routine. Pupils in Reception will also bring picture/reading books when appropriate.
Will Home Learning be marked by teachers?
Teachers will respond to home learning that is uploaded to Hwb. Parents/Carers should comment on their child’s completed home learning to show the level of understanding and assistance they needed.
What if a child finds the home learning difficult?
All children find elements of learning challenging at times. If a child becomes stuck and parents/carers cannot explain it to them they should make a comment about what
they found difficult on the home learning so that the teacher can explain it to them in school.
What if a child finds the home learning too easy?
If your child finds their home learning too easy, please write a comment on their work to let their teacher know. Additionally, feel free to challenge your child with additional tasks.